
RTX’s Blue Canyon Technologies announces new + larger spacecraft
Blue Canyon Technologies recently unveiled the firm's latest spacecraft bus, the Saturn-400. This new, larger satellite offers flexibility and reliability to help customers achieve their mission objectives more effectively. Additional smallsats available from the company The Saturn-400 spacecraft offers increased ...

Rocket Lab’s successful launch from New Zealand of iQPS’ ‘The Harvest Goddess Thrives’
Rocket Lab Corporation (Nasdaq: RKLB) , a provider of launch services and space systems, today successfully launched its 69th Electron mission and deployed the latest satellite to orbit for Institute for Q-shu Pioneers of Space, Inc. (iQPS) — Rocket Lab’s ...

Godspeed as SpaceX’s Dragon transports NASA’s Crew-11 astronauts on mission to the ISS
On Friday, August 1 at 11:43 a.m. ET, Falcon 9 launched Dragon’s 11th operational human spaceflight mission (Crew-11) to the International Space Station from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Following stage separation, Falcon 9’s ...
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First next generation GEO-based missile warning satellite completes environmental testing, on track for delivery to USSF
The first of a new, more capable, more survivable missile warning satellite, designed by Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) for today’s highly contested space domain, has successfully completed environmental testing. The first Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared (Next-Gen OPIR) Geosynchronous Earth Orbit ...

SpaceX’s ‘delivery’ of Amazon’s ProjectKuiper launch scrubbed and is now on Friday
SpaceX is now targeting Friday, August 8 for a Falcon 9 launch of the KF-02 mission to orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The 25-minute window opens at 9:40 a.m. ET ...

Astroscale’s new patent transforms space debris removal
Astroscale Holdings Inc. (“Astroscale”), late last month, announced a major step forward: the issuance of U.S. Patent No. 12,234,043 B2 for the company's “Method and System for Multi-Object Space Debris Removal.” This patented innovation offers a sustainable and cost-effective distributed ...

Global Invacom partners to launch eNexus Space Data for GSaaS
Global Invacom Holdings Limited (GIHL) has jointly founded eNexus Space Data, to deliver a Ground Station as a Service (GSaaS) offering Led by a group of satellite industry experts, including the team at Global Invacom, eNexus Space Data has been ...

Special Aerospace Services rebrands as Aurex
Special Aerospace Services (“SAS”) has officially rebranded as Aurex. The rebrand marks a signification evolution into a unified, mission-driven provider of advanced systems, solutions, products and technologies across space, missile defense, and hypersonics. Aurex employs more than 250 professionals across ...

Sidus Space deploys advanced SpacePilot software for autonomous ops + commissions LizzieSat®-3 Attitude Determination + Control System
Sidus Space (NASDAQ: SIDU) has successfully deployed the company's new, autonomous, guidance, navigation, and control (GNC) software, SpacePilot, and has also commissioned the Attitude Determination and Control System (ADCS) on LizzieSat®-3 (LS3). Designed for next-generation satellite operations, SpacePilot integrates real-time ...

Volatus Aerospace secures ∼$1 million tactical ISR Dronec contract from a NATO partner
Volatus Aerospace Inc. (TSXV:FLT) (OTCQX:TAKOF) (Frankfurt: ABB) has secured a contract to deliver a fleet of lightweight Tactical Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (T-ISR) drone systems to a customer in a NATO member country. The initial contract is valued at approximately ...

Interstellar Technologies signs an alliance with Toyota Motor Corporation + Woven by Toyota
Interstellar Technologies earlier this month signed a three-party business alliance with Toyota Motor Corporation and Woven by Toyota. The three parties will work together to establish a robust production system that enables frequent and cost optimized space transportation. An alliance ...

Space Scotland’s new CEO returns and is ready to ramp up country in preparation of Orbital Launch
Clyde Space made Scotland's first satellite, the UKube-1, which was launched on the Russian Soyuz-2 rocket in 2013 Space Scotland, an industry-led body that represents Scotland’s fast-growing space sector appointed Dr. Natasha Nicholson as its new Chief Executive Officer, following ...

Open Cosmos kicks off first rideshare mission for the European Commission’s IOD/IOV program
Open Cosmos has signed the first work order contract as part of the In-Orbit Demonstration and Validation (IOD/IOV) program funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe R&I Program. Open Cosmos was selected as one of six European providers for this ...